Panglao one of world's best secret beaches: magazine
03/13/2012
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| Panglao Island is included in Travel + Leisure's list of best secret beaches. Photo from Ananyana Beach Resort and Spa |
MANILA, Philippines -- Panglao Island in Bohol is one of the best secret beaches in the world, according to an influential American magazine.
The island, a well-established tourist destination in the Philippines, is one of the 17 areas featured in Travel + Leisure's "Best Secret Beaches on Earth" feature, which is part of the magazine's March 2012 issue.
"An hour-long flight from Manila to Bohol island followed by a 25-minute drive across a 19th-century causeway brings you to this secluded Central Visayas isle," author David Keeps wrote in the Travel + Leisure article.
Keeps particularly cited the Ananyana Beach Resort and Spa, which "occupies a prime spot on a mile-long stretch of sand."
"The 12 luxe thatched-roof huts have bamboo-framed king-size beds; the al fresco restaurant turns out Filipino-Mediterranean dishes such as penne with pork adobo; and the lounge is outfitted with regionally made rattan and abaca furniture," he wrote.
"Hop a resort boat for dolphin watching, diving amid the drop-offs of Balicasag island, or, for the ultimate castaway fantasy, a sunset dinner on deserted Puntod Island," he added.
The article also recommended other sites in Bohol such as the Bohol Bee Farm, which serves dishes such as homemade ube (purple yam) ice cream, and the Chocolate Hills, which was described as "a surreal wonder of 1,776 dome-shaped hills formed from limestone covered in grass."
Meanwhile, here are the other beaches that made it to the list of Travel + Leisure's best secret beaches:
- Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Puako, Big Islang, Hawaii
- Ibo Island, Mozambique
- Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam
- Salema, Portugal
- Bethany Beach, Delaware
- Palm Beach, Barbuda
- Cirali Beach, Turkey
- Koh Lanta, Thailand
- Grand Haven, Michigan
- Lord Howe Island, Australia
- Pyla-sur-Mer, France
- Cayucos, California
- Alagoas, Brazil
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